In the caves of Cantabria, a new species of wasp has been found preserved in amber resin that dates back 100 million years ...

But this latest discovery seems to challenge that. It appears that Paranthropus had greater dietary flexibility than first interpreted, could adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions and was ...

Pannotia holds an odd place in Earth science. It is mentioned in textbooks and review papers, but its outline is unclear. The ...

Ethiopia’s Afar region has stood out in the study of human evolution for its vast array of hominin fossils, from some of the earliest known Homo sapiens dating to 160,000 years, to hominins dating as ...

Teachers who attended ‘compulsory’ creationist conference run by US-based fundamentalist group told radiometric dating techniques were flawed ...

Little Foot is a nearly complete ancient skeleton found in the Sterkfontein caves in South Africa that could change how ...

The return of humans to the British Isles after the end of the last ice sheet, which covered much of the northern hemisphere, happened around 15,200 years ago—nearly 500 years earlier than previous ...

The idea that dinosaurs were already declining well before the asteroid impact 66 million years ago seems established.

Discoveries at a controversial southeastern archaeological site could potentially push back the timelines for human arrival ...

A new study refines radiocarbon dating of marine remains and significantly improves the precision with which the human past ...

While it shares features with modern humans, H. habilis also has traits that would have given it an advantage in climbing ...